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Bill proposes tiered milk-pricing system to create countercyclical support for Vermont dairy farmers
Summary
Representative Don O’Brien introduced H.475 to create an equitable, tiered pricing system on milk handled in Vermont intended to form a countercyclical fund to support dairy farmers; committee members discussed modeling the plan on Maine and potential implementation challenges.
Representative Don O’Brien introduced H.475, a bill to establish an equitable, tiered pricing system for milk handled in Vermont intended to generate a fund that could flow back to dairy farmers and possibly support programs such as universal school meals.
O’Brien said the proposal was inspired by prior work from a state dairy task force and by pricing models used in other states, particularly Maine. He described the mechanism as a “tiered” approach that would collect fees at the handler level — the processors that…
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